Armenians - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

This ethnicity’s newspaper Hunchak (10[2])named a party that revolted in the Sasun Rebellions. A politician of this ethnicity was killed in parliament by an ex-journalist whom Alexander (10[1])Litvinenko (-5[1])alleged the Russian GRU colluded with. (-5[1])After the Tehcir (“teh-JEER”) Law led to mass (10[1])deportations, (10[2]-5[1])these (10[1])people (10[1])sought (-5[1])revenge (-5[1])in (10[1])Operation (10[1])Nemesis. (10[19]-5[1])Hrant (10[6])Dink, (10[2]-5[4])a member (10[1])of (10[1])this ethnicity, (10[2])was assassinated (10[1])while on trial for violating Article 301, (-5[2])which (10[1])affirms (10[1])the denial (10[2])of (10[1])genocide (10[2])against (10[1]-5[2])these (10[2])people. (10[21]-5[4])Massacres (10[4])of these people (10[3])were organized (10[1])by the Three Pashas, (10[4])who (10[1])forced (10[4])people (10[2])of this ethnicity on death marches (10[2])through (10[1])the (10[1])Syrian (10[1]-5[1])Desert. (10[3])For 10 points, the Ottoman (10[1])Empire organized (10[1])a genocide (10[1])of what people (10[2])whose country’s (0[2])capital is (10[1])Yerevan? (10[1])■END■ (10[9])

ANSWER: Armenians [or Hayer] (The politician in the second line is Vazgen Sargsyan.)

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= Average correct buzz position

Summary


Northern California	Main	Y	5	100%	0%	20%	65.60
Southern California	Main	Y	6	100%	0%	0%	52.83
Eastern Canada	Main	Y	12	100%	0%	17%	68.92
Florida	Main	Y	6	100%	0%	17%	82.33
Great Lakes	Main	Y	7	100%	0%	14%	75.43
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	10	100%	0%	20%	75.70
Upper Mid-Atlantic (1)	Main	Y	10	100%	0%	20%	73.40
Upper Mid-Atlantic (2)	Main	Y	5	100%	0%	40%	77.20
Lower Midwest	Main	Y	4	100%	0%	0%	60.00
Lower Midwest	Main	Y	1	0%	0%	0%	0.00
Upper Midwest	Main	Y	12	100%	0%	0%	69.08
North	Main	Y	2	100%	0%	50%	77.00
Northeast	Main	Y	12	100%	0%	17%	68.42
Northwest	Main	Y	4	100%	0%	0%	43.75
South Central	Main	Y	8	100%	0%	0%	69.63
Southeast	Main	Y	8	100%	0%	38%	76.38
UK	Main	Y	1	100%	0%	100%	108.00
Upstate NY	Main	Y	4	100%	0%	25%	83.00

Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Will Hollister	Lehigh A	Swarthmore A	3	10
George Matsumura	Washington B	Simon Fraser	3	10
Sumukh Murthy	UCSD Vices and Virtues	Claremont Pitzer	26	10
Vivian Malouf	Berkeley A	UCSC	27	-5
William Edwards	Tennessee A	NC State	33	-5
James Horsley	Iowa State	Carleton	40	10
Tobias Smerdon	Toronto K	Carleton	41	10
Luc Vulliez	Amherst B	Yale A	41	10
Zachary Joseph	Columbia A	Columbia B	41	-5
Rohan Ganeshan	Harvard	MIT B	42	10
Brodie Henry	Auburn A	Georgia Tech C	43	10
Jonathan Li	Penn B	Johns Hopkins C	44	-5
Khumoyun Bakhtiyarov	Brandeis Orlando	Cornell-UG	45	-5
Nathaniel Hull	Berkeley B	Berkeley E	46	10
Jaehyun Park	BU	Brown B	47	10
Aedan Cooper	Ottawa	Toronto I	48	10
Ishan Joshi	Toronto Metropolitan	McMaster B	48	10
Donal Ryan	Truman State	WashU C	48	10
June Yin	WashU A	WashU B	48	10
Akshar Goyal	Illinois A	Chicago B	48	10
Jack Casey	Illinois B	Purdue B	48	10
Aryan Desarapu	Michigan B	UIC	48	10
Vikram Narasimhan	Stanford C	Berkeley D	48	10
Isaac Millians	USC	UCI	48	10
Terrence Han	UCLA D	UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	48	10
Fuller Wray	Virginia Tech B	South Carolina B	48	10
Milo Scanlon	Macalester B	Minnesota A	48	-5
Yrwin Batan	MIT A	Bowdoin B	48	10
Alexander Nichols	UCF A	UF E	48	10
Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt	NYU A	Georgetown A	48	10
Sam Kemeny	Brandeis Clemenceau	Brown A	48	10
Yaj Jhajhria	Washington A	Alberta	48	10
Anne Fjeld	Alberta B	Texas B	48	10
Kapil Nathan	UAB A	Bruin A	48	10
Truman Hill	Vanderbilt A	Sewanee A	48	10
Suren Grigorian	Berkeley F	Stanford A	49	10
Benjamin Chapman	Toronto A	Toronto E	49	10
Nermeen Rahman	Indiana B	Notre Dame B	49	10
Rahul Jogadhenu	UCLA C	Claremont Scripps	49	10
Taaj Rai	George Washington A	Maryland D	49	10
Kelvin Ni	NYU B	Maryland A	49	10
Graham Troy	North Carolina A	South Carolina A	50	10
Bryce Cruise	Texas A	UCO	50	10
Samir Sarma	Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	50	-5
Davin Sivertson	Alabama B	Huntsville A	50	-5
Jack Doyle	Catholic University	UMBC A	50	-5
Owen Feng	Vanderbilt B	Huntsville B	50	-5
James Wadsley	McGill D	UTD B	52	10
Andrew Amygdalos	CWRU A	Pitt C	53	10
John Chen	British Columbia B	British Columbia D	55	10
Derek Li	Cornell-DII	RIT B	55	10
Jack O'Brien	Georgetown B	George Mason C	57	10
Charlie Lowman	Imperial A	Cambridge A	64	-5
Joseph Chambers	Virginia A	Tusculum	64	-5
Brendan Bridle	Queen's A	Guelph A	65	10
Aditya Patnaik	OSU C	Kenyon A	66	10
Simon Zimmerman	OSU A	CWRU C	68	10
Gus Vanskike	Maryland B	Notre Dame E	68	10
Justin Qian	British Columbia A	British Columbia C	69	10
Tommy Donelon	Missouri B	WashU D	70	10
Sharath Narayan	Northwestern A	Iowa	70	10
Swapnil Garg	Berkeley C	Stanford B	71	10
Amir Dolansky	Toronto H	Toronto G	71	-5
Uday Bhardwaj	McGill B	Toronto J	71	-5
Elise Economou	Pitt B	MSU A	72	10
Daniel Abrams	Rutgers C	Rowan A	72	10
Imtiaz Kidwai	Toronto F	McMaster A	73	10
Sarah Khan	Queen's B	Toronto C	73	10
William Schwartz	Guelph B	Western Ontario	73	10
Yanis Vencatachellum	ERAU B	FSU	73	-5
Alvin Guo	Chicago A	Illinois C	73	10
Joshua Koch	Michigan A	Kentucky	73	10
Orion Brey	Louisville A	Michigan D	73	10
Evan Gniadek	Purdue A	Notre Dame A	73	10
Josh Xu	UCLA B	UCSB	73	10
Abhinav Rachakonda	UCLA A	UCSD What Hath God Wrought	73	10
Jacob Evans	MSU B	CWRU B	73	-5
Danny Peelen	Pitt A	OSU B	73	10
Ben Lanahan	Clemson A	Tennessee B	73	10
Gannon Rice	Clemson B	Liberty B	73	10
Vivian Adolph	North Carolina C	Virginia B	73	10
Charlie Weaver	Virginia Tech A	North Carolina B	73	10
Thomas Newill	Tufts A	BC A	73	10
Lance Hulme	Bowdoin A	Brandeis Lloyd George	73	-5
Elliott Gomes	Dartmouth	Tufts B	73	10
Michael Zheng	Amherst A	Williams	73	10
Aditya Rajesh	Northwestern B	Tulsa	73	10
Doug Frederick	Auburn B	Georgia Tech A	73	10
William Groger	Princeton A	Lehigh B	73	-5
Skand Parvatikar	Arizona State A	Ohio	73	10
Aidan Roullet	RIT A	Binghamton A	73	10
Luke Sloan	McGill C	Toronto D	74	10
Alex Dzurick	William Woods	SIUE	74	10
Gabriel Dodds	Liberty C	James Madison	74	10
Josh Schmidt	Liberty A	Roanoke	74	10
Matthew Amante	Notre Dame C	Purdue C	77	10
Nihal Anand	UTD A	Northwestern C	77	10
S. A. Shenoy	Georgia Tech B	Mississippi State A	77	10
Teshawn McDonald	Louisville B	Michigan C	79	10
Galen Mueller	McGill A	McMaster C	83	10
Peter Zeng	OSU D	CWRU D	83	10
Julian Thomson Harris	Vassar A	Rutgers B	83	10
Kevin Peng	Cornell-UG	Brandeis Orlando	83	10
Jeremy Katen	George Mason A	George Washington B	84	10
Dominic Heffron	Melbourne A	ERAU A	85	10
Elias Ziyadeh	Penn A	Johns Hopkins A	85	10
Max Bendsen	VCU A	Johns Hopkins B	85	10
Jonathan Schnipper	Brandeis Wilson	Yale B	85	10
Alex Olson	UF D	Melbourne B	86	10
Mateo Acosta	FIU	USF	86	10
Hafsa Shaikh	Toronto G	Toronto H	92	10
Raymond Ha	Chicago D	Notre Dame D	92	10
Juan Landaeta	FSU	ERAU B	93	10
Ethan Buermann	Huntsville B	Vanderbilt B	94	10
Caitlyn Begosa	Syracuse	Rochester	95	-5
Raifton Bartling	Johns Hopkins C	Penn B	95	10
Matthew Andersen	UF A	UCF B	96	10
Justin Hawkins	Indiana A	Chicago C	96	10
Ethan Erickson	BC B	Brown C	96	10
Gregory Stone	ESF	Binghamton B	101	10
Aidan Keenan	Rochester	Syracuse	103	10
Malachi Ledford	Tusculum	Virginia A	105	10
Nathaniel Godfrey	Toronto J	McGill B	108	10
Jacob Price	Cambridge A	Imperial A	108	10
Jack Funke	Missouri B	WashU C	110	0
Conner Yamnitz	WashU C	Missouri B	110	0
Andrew Messersmith	Brandeis Lloyd George	Bowdoin A	112	10
Anthony Yin	CWRU B	MSU B	113	10
Huy Lai	UCSC	Berkeley A	114	10
Conner Khan	NC State	Tennessee A	114	10
Puna Ekka	Minnesota A	Macalester B	114	10
Britton Webster	Alabama A	Georgia Tech D	114	10
Felix Garrett Johnston	Huntsville A	Alabama B	114	10
Sayan Chandaroy	UMBC A	Catholic University	114	10
John Mitnik	Columbia B	Columbia A	114	10
Jack Stuhlman	Lehigh B	Princeton A	114	10
Rae Meyers	Arizona State B	Rose State	114	10

Northern California

Main

100%

20%

65.60

Southern California

Main

100%

52.83

Eastern Canada

Main

100%

17%

68.92

Florida

Main

100%

17%

82.33

Great Lakes

Main

100%

14%

75.43

Lower Mid-Atlantic

Main

100%

20%

75.70

Upper Mid-Atlantic (1)

Main

100%

20%

73.40

Upper Mid-Atlantic (2)

Main

100%

40%

77.20

Lower Midwest

Main

100%

60.00

0.00

100%

69.08

North

Main

100%

50%

77.00

Northeast

Main

100%

17%

68.42

Northwest

Main

100%

43.75

South Central

Main

100%

69.63

Southeast

Main

100%

38%

76.38

Main

100%

108.00

Upstate NY

Main

100%

25%

83.00

Player

Team

Opponent

Buzz Position

Value

Will Hollister

Lehigh A

Swarthmore A

George Matsumura

Washington B

Simon Fraser

Sumukh Murthy

UCSD Vices and Virtues

Claremont Pitzer

Vivian Malouf

Berkeley A

UCSC

-5

William Edwards

Tennessee A

NC State

-5

James Horsley

Iowa State

Carleton

Tobias Smerdon

Toronto K

Carleton

Luc Vulliez

Amherst B

Yale A

Zachary Joseph

Columbia A

Columbia B

-5

Rohan Ganeshan

Harvard

MIT B

Brodie Henry

Auburn A

Georgia Tech C

Jonathan Li

Penn B

Johns Hopkins C

-5

Khumoyun Bakhtiyarov

Brandeis Orlando

Cornell-UG

-5

Nathaniel Hull

Berkeley B

Berkeley E

Jaehyun Park

Brown B

Aedan Cooper

Ottawa

Toronto I

Ishan Joshi

Toronto Metropolitan

McMaster B

Donal Ryan

Truman State

WashU C

June Yin

WashU A

WashU B

Akshar Goyal

Illinois A

Chicago B

Jack Casey

Illinois B

Purdue B

Aryan Desarapu

Michigan B

UIC

Vikram Narasimhan

Stanford C

Berkeley D

Isaac Millians

USC

UCI

Terrence Han

UCLA D

UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms

Fuller Wray

Virginia Tech B

South Carolina B

Milo Scanlon

Macalester B

Minnesota A

-5

Yrwin Batan

MIT A

Bowdoin B

Alexander Nichols

UCF A

UF E

Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt

NYU A

Georgetown A

Sam Kemeny

Brandeis Clemenceau

Brown A

Yaj Jhajhria

Washington A

Alberta

Anne Fjeld

Alberta B

Texas B

Kapil Nathan

UAB A

Bruin A

Truman Hill

Vanderbilt A

Sewanee A

Suren Grigorian

Berkeley F

Stanford A

Benjamin Chapman

Toronto A

Toronto E

Nermeen Rahman

Indiana B

Notre Dame B

Rahul Jogadhenu

UCLA C

Claremont Scripps

Taaj Rai

George Washington A

Maryland D

Kelvin Ni

NYU B

Maryland A

Graham Troy

North Carolina A

South Carolina A

Bryce Cruise

Texas A

UCO

Samir Sarma

Georgia Tech D

Alabama A

-5

Davin Sivertson

Alabama B

Huntsville A

-5

Jack Doyle

Catholic University

UMBC A

-5

Owen Feng

Vanderbilt B

Huntsville B

-5

James Wadsley

McGill D

UTD B

Andrew Amygdalos

CWRU A

Pitt C

John Chen

British Columbia B

British Columbia D

Derek Li

Cornell-DII

RIT B

Jack O'Brien

Georgetown B

George Mason C

Charlie Lowman

Imperial A

Cambridge A

-5

Joseph Chambers

Virginia A

Tusculum

-5

Brendan Bridle

Queen's A

Guelph A

Aditya Patnaik

OSU C

Kenyon A

Simon Zimmerman

OSU A

CWRU C

Gus Vanskike

Maryland B

Notre Dame E

Justin Qian

British Columbia A

British Columbia C

Tommy Donelon

Missouri B

WashU D

Sharath Narayan

Northwestern A

Iowa

Swapnil Garg

Berkeley C

Stanford B

Amir Dolansky

Toronto H

Toronto G

-5

Uday Bhardwaj

McGill B

Toronto J

-5

Elise Economou

Pitt B

MSU A

Daniel Abrams

Rutgers C

Rowan A

Imtiaz Kidwai

Toronto F

McMaster A

Sarah Khan

Queen's B

Toronto C

William Schwartz

Guelph B

Western Ontario

Yanis Vencatachellum

ERAU B

FSU

-5

Alvin Guo

Chicago A

Illinois C

Joshua Koch

Michigan A

Kentucky

Orion Brey

Louisville A

Michigan D

Evan Gniadek

Purdue A

Notre Dame A

Josh Xu

UCLA B

UCSB

Abhinav Rachakonda

UCLA A

UCSD What Hath God Wrought

Jacob Evans

MSU B

CWRU B

-5

Danny Peelen

Pitt A

OSU B

Ben Lanahan

Clemson A

Tennessee B

Gannon Rice

Clemson B

Liberty B

Vivian Adolph

North Carolina C

Virginia B

Charlie Weaver

Virginia Tech A

North Carolina B

Thomas Newill

Tufts A

BC A

Lance Hulme

Bowdoin A

Brandeis Lloyd George

-5

Elliott Gomes

Dartmouth

Tufts B

Michael Zheng

Amherst A

Williams

Aditya Rajesh

Northwestern B

Tulsa

Doug Frederick

Auburn B

Georgia Tech A

William Groger

Princeton A

Lehigh B

-5

Skand Parvatikar

Arizona State A

Ohio

Aidan Roullet

RIT A

Binghamton A

Luke Sloan

McGill C

Toronto D

Alex Dzurick

William Woods

SIUE

Gabriel Dodds

Liberty C

James Madison

Josh Schmidt

Liberty A

Roanoke

Matthew Amante

Notre Dame C

Purdue C

Nihal Anand

UTD A

Northwestern C

S. A. Shenoy

Georgia Tech B

Mississippi State A

Teshawn McDonald

Louisville B

Michigan C

Galen Mueller

McGill A

McMaster C

Peter Zeng

OSU D

CWRU D

Julian Thomson Harris

Vassar A

Rutgers B

Kevin Peng

Cornell-UG

Brandeis Orlando

Jeremy Katen

George Mason A

George Washington B

Dominic Heffron

Melbourne A

ERAU A

Elias Ziyadeh

Penn A

Johns Hopkins A

Max Bendsen

VCU A

Johns Hopkins B

Jonathan Schnipper

Brandeis Wilson

Yale B

Alex Olson

UF D

Melbourne B

Mateo Acosta

FIU

USF

Hafsa Shaikh

Toronto G

Toronto H

Raymond Ha

Chicago D

Notre Dame D

Juan Landaeta

FSU

ERAU B

Ethan Buermann

Huntsville B

Vanderbilt B

Caitlyn Begosa

Syracuse

Rochester

-5

Raifton Bartling

Johns Hopkins C

Penn B

Matthew Andersen

UF A

UCF B

Justin Hawkins

Indiana A

Chicago C

Ethan Erickson

BC B

Brown C

Gregory Stone

ESF

Binghamton B

101

Aidan Keenan

Rochester

Syracuse

103

Malachi Ledford

Tusculum

Virginia A

105

Nathaniel Godfrey

Toronto J

McGill B

108

Jacob Price

Cambridge A

Imperial A

108

Jack Funke

Missouri B

WashU C

110

Conner Yamnitz

WashU C

Missouri B

110

Andrew Messersmith

Brandeis Lloyd George

Bowdoin A

112

Anthony Yin

CWRU B

MSU B

113

Huy Lai

UCSC

Berkeley A

114

Conner Khan

NC State

Tennessee A

114

Puna Ekka

Minnesota A

Macalester B

114

Britton Webster

Alabama A

Georgia Tech D

114

Felix Garrett Johnston

Huntsville A

Alabama B

114

Sayan Chandaroy

UMBC A

Catholic University

114

John Mitnik

Columbia B

Columbia A

114

Jack Stuhlman

Lehigh B

Princeton A

114

Rae Meyers

Arizona State B

Rose State

114